R Observatory: Metrics for colourpicker version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

colourpicker

1.3.0Package record

A Colour Picker Tool for Shiny and for Selecting Colours in Plots

48packages dependsuggested by 28

2.6Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dean AttaliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A colour picker that can be used as an input in 'Shiny' apps or Rmarkdown documents. The colour picker supports alpha opacity, custom colour palettes, and many more options. A Plot Colour Helper tool is available as an 'RStudio' Addin, which helps you pick colours to use in your plots. A more generic Colour Picker 'RStudio' Addin is also provided to let you select colours to use in your R code.

Changes in 1.3.0

Add width parameter to colourInput() (#52)
Don't use addResourcePath() and instead use htmlDependency() (#43)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("colourpicker", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("daattali/colourpicker")

Development version from daattali/colourpicker. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-colourpicker

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-colourpicker

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-colourpicker

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.0

READMEYes · 2,170 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 7 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 33%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #202 · ~7K/day · ~213.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

190.2K30 days

795.9K90 days

2.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7.9K r2u143 autocran11.8K conda_forge615 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

daattali/colourpicker ↗Account: daattali

227Stars

26Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

140Commits

6Commit identities

shiny-rrr-packagerstudio-addinshinyrstats

140 commits · Last activity 2024-08-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-25 · 2252026-07-07 · 227

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/daattali/colourpicker on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing colourpicker adds 51 packages (25 with compiled code, 42 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (8)

ggplot2 htmltools htmlwidgets jsonlite miniUI (>= 0.1.1)shiny shinyjsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown rstudioapi shinydisconnect

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

48direct

40indirect

Imports 48

Suggested by 28

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 28 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Dean Attali

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2016)

David Griswold

Contributor · added in 1.0

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.0Latest
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2023-08-21 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.0
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2022-10-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.1
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2021-10-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.1.0
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2020-09-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0
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2017-09-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3
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2016-12-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
plotHelper

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0.2
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2016-09-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
runExample
0.1
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2016-08-13
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-08-13
Total releases: 8 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("colourpicker")

Format

Attali, D., & Griswold, D. (2023). colourpicker: A Colour Picker Tool for Shiny and for Selecting Colours in Plots (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.colourpicker

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for colourpicker version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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